The improv game

[CaptainCrunch]

Yes, we had the Random book thread, now maybe we can try an excercise from Improv theater, where we each write a line to a story that follows up the line before it. Lets see what kind of a random novel can be written.

Once upon a time in a city not unlike your own . . .

[Gozer]

two strangers passed each other at the entrance of a tavern.

[C_Rush]

The one stranger was a tall man, thin and hawk-nosed; the other stranger was short, little better than a dwarf, really.

[Locke]

They looked at one another, not an easy proposition given the difference in their statures, and asked the age-old and time-honored question...."Pub?"

"Pub!"

[CaptainCrunch]

The short one, who went by the name Bob was a professionally unemployed circus cannon ball, his taller friend liked to needle him relentlessly or as he liked to call it "Light his fuse"

[C_Rush]

Bob had a notoriously bad temper, which was made even worse when he drank.

[Gozer]

This particular evening, Bob's lanky friend had won a hefty sum of money of him at a game of chance.

[Flash]

Bob looked up at his new friend and said angrily, "I am NOT happy!"

[skippy]

"Grumpy then?" inquired the friend.

[C_Rush]

To which Bob replied by punching him in the shins.

[skippy]

As the lanky friend jumped around in pain, he yelled, "You don't even know my name! Do you?!"

[troutman]

[not part of the game, but here is a funny improv:]

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by skippy

As the lanky friend jumped around in pain, he yelled, "You don't even know my name! Do you?!"

To which Bob replied, "no I don't know, and I don't even care!" Being your friend is life a Guns and Roses collection without Appetite for Destruction. And as Bob stormed out of the pub, the hawk nosed man started to sob....

[C_Rush]

"Why do all my friends hate me?" he wailed.

[Gozer]

An timid, but rather buxom waitress approaches uncertainly as another patron spoke up.

[Jason14h]

"You're a Bloc supporter, aren't you?" Asked a nearby patron, proudly wearing a conservative button and drinking a Big Rock.

[skippy]

Just as Bob thought the day couldn't get any worse, it did.

[C_Rush]

"Just because I'm a dwarf and have a bad temper, you think I'm a seperatist?" Bob shouted at the inebriated Conservative.

[Gozer]

"What are you going to do? LEAVE!" responded a faceless wiseguy, as raucous laughter ensues.

[Jason14h]

"No. It's not you're height or bad vocabulary, but rather the fact you have no friends that makes us believe you are a seperatist!" Added the waitress, while delivering a glass of red wine to Bob.